I asked Mike to give you an account of our most recent trip to New Orleans. Here’s Mike Knezovich: It’s Fat Tuesday, and only a week ago, we were flying home from New Orleans. It feels like it’s been a long time already. But I do remember… …catching three or four pre-Mardi Gras parades without even […]

Last month I published a post about two trips I took to New York City with Whitney during our training. Here’s an excerpt: I am happy to report that corrections don’t shake her confidence. “Oh, you meant for me to turn into Penn Station, Beth?” she seemed to say once. “Well, then, let’s back up […]

We had such fun with my sister Cheryl on our train ride to visit her daughter Caren and her family in Minnesota last year that she agreed to ride on the Texas Eagle with us to Springfield, Ill. Today. I’m pretty sure Harper will do alright on this trip (he guides well inside train stations […]

Laura Martinez is 26 years old and has always loved to cook. She attended Le Cordon Bleu before accepting a position at Charlie Trotter’s, a five-star restaurant here in Chicago. And, oh yeah. Laura Martinez just happens to be blind. In her spare time (!) Laura teaches a cooking class at Friedman Place, a non-profit […]

Mike dropped Harper and me off at the Women’s Athletic Club on Michigan Avenue this morning to hear my fellow Bark magazine contributor Ann Patchett give a presentation. It was my first outing alone with Harper since they put that Flintstone cast on my foot, and we made sure to hobble in early. I alerted […]